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60-456: The Lilium Jet is a prototype German electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) electrically powered airplane designed by Lilium GmbH . A seven-seat production version is planned. Initial design studies included forward-folding wings, so that the aircraft could be piloted as a VTOL and recharge in only few hours from a standard 240 V electrical outlet. A first half-scale demonstrator, Falcon , flew in 2015. The unmanned first flight of

120-527: A cargo eVTOL aircraft, the VoloDrone, that can carry up to 200 kg with a maximum range of 40 km. eVTOL systems have multiple applications in agriculture, particularly in the areas of crop protection and cover cropping. Guardian Agriculture offers a heavy-lift unmanned aerial platform, the SC1, capable of carrying over 100 kg. In 2023 Guardian Agriculture's SC1 became the first eVTOL system to be approved by

180-663: A certificate and can use the "Red Dot" as a quality label for their product or corporate communication. The oldest of the three awards, the Red Dot Award: Product Design , had been known as Design Innovations until 2000. It is given for products with a "good or excellent design quality". The awarding ceremony takes place annually at the Aalto Theatre in Essen. Overall, the Red Dot Award: Product Design

240-537: A design team that has distinguished itself through its continuously innovative design achievements has been honored with the Red Dot: Design Team of the Year award, as part of the Red Dot Award: Product Design. The Red Dot: Design Team of the Year is honored by handing over the "Radius", a sculpture as a challenge trophy on which all the names of the previous winners are engraved. Previous winners were, for example,

300-465: A fee is charged for registering works. In order to enable smaller design offices and companies to take part in the Red Dot Design Award, 50 free places in the competition are raffled among young designers every year. Each of the approximately 3,500 winning designs each year are required to pay a fee which can range between 1,950 and 7,500 euros, depending on the category and prize. In 2006,

360-542: A folding wing design that allows easy storage land transport of the vehicle. Takeoff occurs with the wings in the folded position, with an in-flight transition to fully extended. Hybrid designs employ some fixed and some tilting motors, as shown by Archer Maker, Vertical Aerospace VA-1X, and Wisk Cora. Typical multicopters do not use wings, relying exclusively on the turning blades for lift though they may incorporate them to varying degrees. Tandem wing designs use front and rear wings, optionally attached to each other at

420-568: A high technological readiness level for battery-powered eVTOLs. On 19 April 2024, U.S. aircraft manufacturer Boeing announced plans to enter the eVTOL business in Asia by 2030, anticipating demand for fast short-distance travel that the vehicles could provide in the region's traffic-choked cities. The company is developing electric vertical take-off and landing craft, which will incorporate autonomous technology, at subsidiary Wisk Aero . Four American companies have military airworthiness contracts through

480-420: A hybrid that pivots the rotor-holding part of its otherwise fixed box wing design. Another approach to thrust vectoring is to use flaps to divert air coming from a horizontal motor downward to create lift. Craft Aero is notable for its box wing that is attached to the bottom of the fuselage in the front and the top of the fuselage in the back, presenting a diamond shape when viewed from above. The design includes

540-461: A rear pusher prop for cruising. It uses a mostly aluminum frame, with carbon-fiber/ aramid -reinforced polymer bodywork. The craft is 8.62 m (28.3 ft) wide, 6.15 m (20.2 ft) long and 2.51 m (8 ft 3 in) high. The battery pack holds 13.5-kWh. Empty weight is 488 kg (1,076 lb) and hosts an up to 79 kg (174 lb) pilot. The vehicle features at least three flight controllers, driving 32 vertical propellers in

600-469: A remarkable set of software tools that build on more than a decade of experience enabling on-demand mobility." In 2020, Tetra Aviation won the "disruptor award" at the GoFly personal flight contest for its single-seat eVTOL. In 2021, the company announced its Mk5 personal eVTOL that it expects to deliver in 2022. It incorporates 32 vertical lift rotors distributed across long, thin front and rear wings, along with

660-496: A significant increase in interest among aircraft manufacturers for eVTOLs, and companies such as Boeing , Airbus and Bell have also worked on the technology: In addition to these major aircraft manufacturers, startups have been playing an important role in the development of these air vehicles and had sometimes been leaders in technological advances. Uber published a paper on a project called Elevate co-authored by Jeff Holden, Nikhil Goel, and Mark Moore. The paper outlined

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720-455: A turbine generator for increased range. Odys Aviation vectors thrust from its 16 motors by extending flaps that direct the backward-traveling air downward at take-off and landing. Tilt-wing configurations pivot the frocio wing along with its attached motors like Dufour Aerospace. Lift and cruise systems use one set of motors for vertical flight and another set for cruising, such as Beta Alia, Airbus , Eve, and eMagic. PteroDynamics uses

780-499: Is 280 km (150 nmi). Its 36 electric ducted fans are powered by a 1 MW (1,300 hp) lithium-ion battery; less than 200 hp (150 kW) is required to cruise. Data from Lilium GmbH / Electric VTOL News by the Vertical Flight Society General characteristics Performance The Lilium GmbH plans to found an air taxi service for urban air mobility and Advanced Air Mobility with

840-654: Is an international, annual design competition for product and industrial design , brand and communication design as well as design concepts, in which the Red Dot quality label is awarded to winners. The Red Dot Design Award, which is organized by Red Dot GmbH & Co. KG, dates back to 1954 when the "Verein Industrieform e. V." was founded. The competition is divided into the three disciplines Red Dot Award: Product Design , Red Dot Award: Brands & Communication Design and Red Dot Award: Design Concept . Participation in

900-606: Is awarded as part of the Red Dot Award: Brands & Communication Design . In addition, the Red Dot: Personality Prize has been awarded since 2020. As of March 2023, Jean-Claude Biver and Claudio Luti have been awarded the Personality Prize. Submissions to the Red Dot Design Award are evaluated by a jury consisting of designers, professors and specialist journalists from various disciplines. In 1955,

960-593: Is composed of around fifty categories from a wide variety of areas such as computers, medical devices, glasses, office furniture, household or bicycles. Some of the best-known award-winning products include Sony 's robot dog AIBO , the iPod , iPhone and iMac from Apple , as well as the Ferrari LaFerrari and 296 GTB . Previous winners were, for example, the Waterson Self-Closing Swing Clear Hinge, (2023) Every year since 1988,

1020-465: Is included. It has yet to fly. In 2021, Volocopter conducted South Korea's first crewed eVTOL flight. In November 2021, the National Academy of Sciences published a study by Shashank Sripad and Venkat Viswanathan of Carnegie Mellon University that showed eVTOL aircraft could have an energy efficiency that is comparable to or higher than terrestrial electric vehicles. The study also assigned

1080-424: Is placed directly on the cooker to heat the contents. Due to the design of the spout and lid, the hot contents are inevitably splashed onto the cooker top when preparing hot drinks due to the high steam pressure inside. In addition, the metal handle piece is directly connected to the bottom of the pot, so that there is a considerable risk of injury from burns or scalding when using the espresso pot. Rossi's espresso pot

1140-642: Is targeted towards young, up-and-coming creative talents, designers, and design companies around the world. Part of the Design Concept Award is the Red Dot: Luminary, which is the highest award within the Red Dot Award for design concepts. It has been awarded to designs such as the Trailer Drone by Hyundai Motor or glasses for the blind by Lumen. The Red Dot: Junior Prize , worth 10,000 euros ,

1200-490: Is therefore aesthetically pleasing, but not very useful. The award-winning projects are presented in various formats. All award-winning products are presented in annual yearbooks since 1985, which are published by Red Dot Edition since 2001. Designers whose products receive the "Red Dot: Best of the Best" award are presented in exclusive interviews. Award-winning brands and works in graphic and communication design are published in

1260-745: Is working on the Pipistrel 801 , a 5 seats air taxi. Another example is Volocopter , which proposed its air taxi service called VoloCity, based on the Volocopter 2X . The Google -owned company Wing has been offering an eVTOL UAV delivery service since 2020. Their drones are able to fly up to 100 km and carry up to 1.5 kg. Amazon Prime Air and UPS are two others companies using drone delivery. A German aerospace company called Wingcopter in collaboration with UNICEF has also delivered vaccines in Vanuatu in 2018. In 2020 wingcopter eVTOL drone

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1320-566: The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung stated that the Red Dot Design Award was one of only three relevant design prizes in Germany. In academia, voices stated that the Red Dot Design Award is one of the most important design prizes since the mid-2010s. Deutsche Welle stated in 2017 that the Red Dot Design Award was "one of the most important design prizes in the world". Designer Michael Brandis emphasized in 2017 that being awarded

1380-803: The AugustaWestland Project Zero (Italy), the Volocopter VC1 (Germany) and the Opener BlackFly (US). It was officially introduced by the Vertical Flight Society and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) in 2014 during the "Transformative Vertical Flight Concepts Joint Workshop on Enabling New Flight Concepts through Novel Propulsion and Energy Architectures" held in Virginia . Since then, there has been

1440-472: The SC-VTOL-01  : Special Condition for VTOL aircraft. This document established the safety and design objectives for VTOL aircraft. It includes a special section for eVTOL. The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) published a study in 2009 on general aviation recommendations for the next 20 years. In particular Part 23-Amendment 64 includes eVTOL. Red Dot The Red Dot Design Award

1500-452: The 21st century international recognition of the award had grown and by 2005 a second museum for displaying award-winning exhibits was established in Singapore . By 2015 the Red Dot exhibition in Essen had about 2,000 exhibits from 45 countries. The Red Dot is awarded in the three categories "product design", "brands & communication design" and "design concept". The award winners receive

1560-527: The EmbraerX division of Embraer , as well as partnerships, such as Wisk Aero that was launched as a joint venture between Boeing and Larry Page's Kitty Hawk . The concept of eVTOL aircraft emerged in 2009 when a video of the NASA Puffin eVTOL concept went viral on November 11, 2009, showcasing a single person concept rendering of the technology, and concept in flight. Following this, the first Puffin paper at

1620-518: The FAA for nationwide operation. In 2020, JumpAero announced it was working on a small, one-seater eVTOL aircraft to allow the rapid deployment of emergency services . This type of vehicle is not a replacement for land vehicles or helicopters, but a new tool that, thanks to the electric motor, is faster than the others. In 2020, the Canadian Advanced Air Mobility (CAAM) consortium studied

1680-450: The Leo, a 3-seat, 250 mph (400 km/h), 300 mi (480 km) vehicle. It hosts 16 40-cm diameter, 10-kw ducted fans for vertical lift, and 6 28 cm diameter, turbine-bladed rear engines for horizontal thrust. The wing is a double box-wing design. The intent is that it be small enough to park in a standard automobile space. The split battery system holds 66-kWh. A ballistic parachute

1740-912: The Lilium Jet. The company expects that pilots will be needed for around 10 years until autonomous flights can take over. In October 2019 the Lilium five-seater Jet received a Red Dot Award: Design Concept for “Best of the Best”. Related development Related lists EVTOL Original eVTOL aircraft designs are being developed by original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) that include legacy manufacturers such as Airbus , Boeing , Embraer , Honda , Hyundai , and Toyota , as well as several start-up companies including Archer Aviation , EHang , Joby Aviation , Overair, and Volocopter . This ecosystem of firms developing eVTOLs includes also spin-off of legacy aircraft manufacturers, such as Eve Air Mobility that emerged from

1800-642: The Philippines, to develop, integrate, deploy, brand and market a series of Pinoy flying LuftCar super-jeepney ( hydrogen Jeepney van eVTOL built around eFrancisco's vehicle chassis for island hopping ). In April 2020, the USAF announced $ 25 million-worth funding of eVTOL projects for development in 2021. On August 20, 2020, United States Air Force (USAF) held a demonstration flight of an electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft at Camp Mabry in Austin, Texas . It

1860-695: The Philips Experience Design Team (2022), Studio F. A. Porsche , (2021), Waterson In-house Design Team, (2023) and the Fiskars Design Team (2020). Since 1993, the award has also been given for communication design . As part of the Red Dot Award: Brands & Communication Design, a design studio or communication agency has been honored with the Red Dot: Agency of the Year award every year since 2008. The Red Dot: Agency of

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1920-706: The Red Dot Design Award, can be seen in annually changing exhibitions. In the 1950s, the Haus der Industrieform e.V. association received part of its financial resources from Krupp . The family and the Krupp Group financed both the furnishing of the Industrieform building and the renovation of the Old Synagogue . Since the move to the boiler house in the Zollverein, part of the income has come from renting out space for product presentations, company conferences and events. Further,

1980-527: The U.S. market. The Houston-based aircraft brokerage, EMCJET, unveiled the jet at Galaxy FBO, a facility that is collaborating with Lilium to support the jet's accessibility at locations in the Houston area. Lilium was also working with the Greater Houston Partnership to facilitate a discussion with industry leaders about how electric aviation could transform regional travel in the Houston region. At

2040-579: The US military's Agility Prime program: Joby Aviation , Beta Technologies , Lift Aircraft, and most recently Kitty Hawk , whose Heaviside aircraft was accepted in July 2021. Archer, Joby, Lilium, and Vertical joined special-purpose acquisition companies (SPAC) to go public. The first was Archer Aviation , who simultaneously announced a $ 1,000,000,000 order of 200+ aircraft from United Airlines in February 2021. Archer

2100-651: The VFS Specialists Conference on Aeromechanics , on January 9, 2010. This concept utilized a new technology developed at NASA called Distributed Electric Propulsion (DEP). Additional Puffin papers were published on September 13 at the 10th AIAA ATIO Conference, NASA Puffin Electric Tailsitter VTOL Concept and Puffin Redundant Electric Powertrain System. This was fast followed in 2011 by several industry efforts, namely

2160-587: The Year is honored by handing over the "stylus", a sculpture on which the names of all previous award winners are engraved. Previous winners were, for example, agencies such as MetaDesign (2022), Denkwerk (2021), Interbrand (2020), . Think Create LLC (2018). In 2005, Red Dot established the Red Dot Design Museum Singapore as well as an award for design concepts and prototypes . The Red Dot Award: Design Concept focuses on design concepts, ideas, and visions. The Red Dot Award: Design Concept

2220-516: The annual International Yearbook Brands & Communication Design . Concepts and studies are presented in the Red Dot Design Concept Yearbook , which is being published since 2005. Together with the yearbooks, a chronicle of international product and design culture has been developed of the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century. Further, all winners of the three categories can be viewed online, ranging back to

2280-589: The association Haus der Industrieform e.V. (House of Industrial Form e.V.), which was founded on July 30, 1954 in Essen . Starting in October 1955, Haus Industrieform began hosting a permanent exhibition at the Kleines Haus der Villa Hügel as well as hosting a design award. Around 600 "exemplary" industrial products from 120 companies were shown, which had been previously selected by a twelve-person jury. From November 1961,

2340-446: The benefits of eVTOL for direct hospital-to-hospital transportation of patients, organs and drugs. eVTOL aircraft have been created to introduce electric flight into recreational or sporting aviation, such as racing series Airspeeder . The single seat Jetson One octo-rotored eVTOL is noted for its use of software to make it easier to fly. In 2024, LuftCar signed a Memorandum of understanding with eFrancisco Motor Corporation in

2400-533: The case of motor or flight controller failure, with a parachute in the event of total failure. The plane is to be sold as an experimental kit aircraft that requires only a private pilot license. In October 2020 with a $ 60 million investment in Joby Aviation, a business building an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft intended to provide air cab service, Delta joined the list of airlines funding EV technology startups. In 2021, Urban eVTOL announced

2460-564: The competition a more concise appearance, Zec introduced the Red Dot (Roter Punkt) as a distinction for award-winning products. The idea of introducing the Red Dot as a design award goes back to the procedure in art galleries , where a red dot next to a work of art symbolizes the successful sale of the work. The symbol was designed by Otl Aicher in 1991 for the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen. However, in order to promote

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2520-448: The competition developed worldwide. Therefore, the management decided to change the German expression Roter Punkt to Red Dot and to have a new logo and label designed. This led to commissioning graphic designer Peter Schmidt for a further remodeling of the Red Dot Award logo in 2000. Meanwhile, in 1997, the organization moved to its current location at Zollverein . In the early years of

2580-504: The competition is subject to a fee, the submissions are then evaluated by an international jury . Products, concepts and works that have received the Red Dot Design Award are presented in exhibitions (e.g. the Red Dot Design Museum in Essen ), yearbooks and online. In addition, winning designers and companies can use the "Red Dot" quality label for their product and corporate communication . The Red Dot Design Award goes back to

2640-459: The competition rather than the institution that hosted it, graphic designer Kurt Weidemann visually reconceived the Red Dot logo in 1994. This period marked the award’s internationalization through the encouragement of entries from companies in North and South America, Asia, and Europe. The German Roter Punkt was translated more and more frequently into other languages, so that inconsistent designations for

2700-473: The electrical and flight control systems . The first prototype was destroyed by fire during maintenance on 27 February 2020. A second partially-constructed prototype was undamaged. A further unfinished prototype was abandoned, and work begun on a seven-seat version. On 18 July 2024 Saudia Group and Lilium N.V. signed a binding sales agreement for 50 Lilium Jets, with options for the purchase of 50 more. On 26 September 2024, Lilium debuted its Lilium Jet in

2760-529: The end of October 2024, Lilium GmbH has conceded insolvency. Lilium's situation was triggered by the denial of a guarantee for a 50 million-euro loan from the Kreditanstalt guaranteed by the State of Bavaria. The Lilium Jet uses multiple relatively small ducted propellers driven by electric motors to provide lift during take-off and landing, as well as thrust during the cruise phase. Lilium says that it refers to

2820-600: The exhibition was on display in the Old Synagogue in Essen. After a fire in the Old Synagogue, the exhibition moved to the Amerikahaus on Kennedyplatz in 1980. From the mid-1980s, the North Rhine-Westphalian State Ministry of Economic Affairs acted as a project sponsor and the design competition was called Design Innovations from 1985 forward. In 1990, as a result of restructuring, the organization

2880-568: The feasibility of an on-demand aviation transportation system. That document, along with subsequent annual Elevate summits the company hosted from 2017 to 2019, helped advance the concepts of eVTOL aircraft and urban air mobility (UAM) from a science-fiction concept to a potential aerospace sector pursued by dozens of development projects. In December, 2020, Uber's Elevate was acquired by Joby Aviation . Upon acquisition, Joby CEO JoeBen Bivert said, "The team at Uber Elevate has not only played an important role in our industry, they have also developed

2940-412: The jury had 12 members. In 2022, the jury had 48 members from 23 nations. The jury evaluates the submissions - divided into categories - by themselves. Objects that are too large for the jury's premises (e.g. cars, motor cycles and trucks) can be held in a dedicated area at Essen/Mülheim Airport . In the case of products, the jury evaluates the quality of "good design" based on four evaluation criteria:

3000-525: The motors/propellers, such as the Volcopter 2X or the Jetson One . Vectored thrust designs change the direction of thrust, vectoring thrust vertically for takeoff/landing and horizontally while cruising. The entire wing (tilt-wing) can pivot to or just the rotors (tilt-rotor). The Archer Maker, Lilium Jet , Joby S4 , Vertical Aerospace VA-X4, and Zuri 2.0 are tilt-rotor craft. The AMSL Aero Vertiia uses

3060-400: The propulsion system as a "jet" because the propellers are enclosed in nacelles . The production Lilium Jet is intended to accommodate six passengers and one pilot. It is powered by 36 electric motors , six on each of the two front canards and twelve on each rear wing. The motors are installed above twelve tiltable rear flaps . The drive-carrying flaps pivot downwards for vertical launch. At

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3120-636: The quality of function, aesthetics, usability and responsibility. A product must have a recognizable purpose and be easy and self-explanatory to use, while the product must be aesthetic and sustainable or long-lasting. Although the individual qualities may vary in strength, none of them should be entirely absent. An article in the Stuttgarter Zeitung in 1992 used the example of the Aldo Rossi espresso pot to explain these assessment criteria, particularly in terms of quality of function and aesthetics: The pot

3180-674: The transition to the horizontal position, forward thrust is generated. This is claimed to be significantly more economical than a conventional rotorcraft , however the propulsion configuration generates very high disc loading and power-delivery requirements significantly exceeding the leading competitive eVTOL designs. Lilium invested in Ionblox for its silicon-dominant anode battery technology, which it believes offers uniquely high energy and power density (12C with 3.8 kW/kG at 50% charge and 3.0 kW/kG at 30%) needed for hover and take-off phases, even at low charge levels. The target range

3240-698: The two-seat Eagle full size prototype was on 20 April 2017 at the Mindelheim-Mattsies airfield , Bavaria , Germany . Unmanned flight testing of the five-seat Lilium Jet took place at Oberpfaffenhofen airfield near Munich. It first flew in May 2019. By October 2019, after 100 flights, it could transition from vertical to horizontal flight, reaching over 100 km/h (54 kn), but not yet fully horizontal. It managed 25° banked turns, high ascent/descent rates like in operations, hover turns and sideward translations. Electrical, fan and flap failures were mitigated by

3300-973: The wing tips. Box wing or closed wing designs also use two wings, but the wings are connected in such a way that the wingtips are eliminated. The wings may be vertically stacked or arranged front and rear as in tandem designs. Ducted wing designs open to expose the lift-off fans, and close around them for faster higher-speed cruising. Most current designs are powered by batteries , although some designs use hydrogen fuel cells . Currently, batteries suffer from low specific energy (causing range and thus safety issues). Fuel cells have previously suffered from lower specific power (which could be too low for vertical takeoff/landing), but newer designs claim to have solved this problem with much higher specific power. There are also proposals to use batteries for takeoff/landing, and hydrogen fuel cells for cruising. Many eVTOL concept models are designed for air taxi applications. For instance, Pipistrel , an Uber Elevate partner,

3360-516: The year 2011. The design concepts awarded by the jury and the award-winning works in brand and communication design can also be accessed. Selected winners from each category are exhibited in three museums, which are located in Essen, Singapore and Xiamen . The Red Dot Design Museum in Essen is one of the most important design museums with the world's largest exhibition of contemporary design. In Essen, on an area of around 4000 m , more than 2000 exhibits of contemporary design, which have been awarded

3420-589: Was also the first to publicly reveal its Maker aircraft in-person that year. Vertical Aerospace announced pre-orders for 1,000 eVTOLs in June 2021, including from American Airlines, Virgin Atlantic and aircraft lessor, Avalon Holdings. As of March 2024, Embraer had signed contracts with twenty-eight companies for 2,850 orders of eVTOLs, valued at US$ 8 billion from 30 customers in 13 countries. Many designs operate without wings. Multicopters typically use radial arms to host

3480-454: Was renamed to Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen e.V. (Design Center North Rhine-Westphalia e.V.). In the same year, the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen moved to the old municipal library on Hindenburgstraße. On April 1, 1991, Peter Zec became managing director of the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen, who brought to the concept of the award a more contemporary face. In order to give

3540-500: Was the first time that a manned eVTOL aircraft took flight under USAF Agility Prime programme. On 12 December 2021, Embraer and BAE Systems announced plans to embark on a joint study to explore the development of Eve's vehicle for the defence and security market. Since 2018, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has been working on the certification of such aircraft. In July 2019, they published

3600-461: Was used to deliver COVID-19 test kits to Isle of Mull. Heavy-lift unmanned air vehicles included companies such as Sabrewing Aircraft Company Sabrewing Rhaegal , Elroy Elroy Air Chaparral and Pipistrel have unveiled heavy-lift uncrewed cargo aircraft, with the Sabrewing aircraft having a capacity to carry a payload of up to 5,400 pounds in a vertical take off scenario. Volocopter has also developed

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